In recent years, a consensus has developed among scholars that the timing of elections has large effects on the electoral and political…
Do biases in representation arise at the most basic levels of policy implementation, and can political participation contribute to these…
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence. That interdependence creates increasing needs for…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan…
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the grounds behind Vladimir Putin’s decision were widely debated.…
Transitional justice database projects continue to multiply, even amid mounting suspicion that systematic comparative analysis has little…
November 6, 2023, Opinion: "Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…